Sentences with phrase «as dodo»

Samsung's clever combination of an efficient processor and some software optimization resulted in us consistently having around 25 percent of battery in the evening, when our trusty Galaxy S8 + would usually be as dead as a dodo.

«You will be crying when you spot a leopard dragging a fresh kill up a tree and [your camera is] left dead as a dodo.»

The first assumption is that print is on its way out and dead as a dodo, soon to be completely replaced by online publications, ebooks, and the like.

Example phrase: «the campaign was as dead as a dodo.»

Consider just one example: the hundreds of thousands of rare birds and endangered bats slaughtered in the US every year by the wind farms that Hillary Clinton applauds (and will no doubt go on subsidising) and that Donald Trump loathes (and will no doubt starve of subsidies and cause to become as extinct as the Dodo).

It's as dead as the Dodo Bird.

«Turner Prize: A Retrospective 1984 - 2006»; Tate Britain, London Artforum International; January 1, 2008; Schwabsky, Barry; 700 + words... autonomy, ours is a time when, as the Dodo said, «all must have prizes.»

«NO JURY, NO PRIZES» was one of the great slogans of modernism, but since publicity is today valued more than autonomy, ours is a time when, as the Dodo said, «all must have prizes.»

The year Anthony Caro made Window, he was described by critic John Richardson as making sculpture so new that it made Barbara Hepworth's work look dead as dodo eggs.

If you have similar results as your first run (assuming that your first run wasn't terrible) you will be as rare as the dodo or passenger pigeon.

about as useful as the Dodo bird.

Dead as a Dodo?

Starring: Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter, Anne Hathaway as The White Queen, Helena Bonham Carter as The Red Queen, Crispin Glover as The Knave of Hearts, Mia Wasikowska as Alice Kingsley, Marton Csokas as Charles Kingsley, Matt Lucas as Tweedledee / Tweedledum, Lindsay Duncan as Helen Kingsley, Tim Pigott - Smith as Lord Ascot, Frances de la Tour as Aunt Imogene, Michael Sheen as The White Rabbit (voice), Alan Rickman as The Caterpillar (voice), Christopher Lee as The Jabberwocky (voice), Stephen Fry as The Cheshire Cat (voice), Timothy Spall as The Bloodhound (voice), Paul Whitehouse as The March Hare (voice), Barbara Windsor as The Dormouse (voice), Michael Gough as The Dodo (voice), Imelda Staunton as Tall Flower Faces (voice), Eleanor Tomlinson as Fiona Chattaway

Phil; Another Bird Blog recently posted... Dead As A Dodo?

«The Conservatives» dalliance with liberalism is as dead as a dodo,» responded Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne.

Well, Cameron said something about minimum alcohol pricing and the BBC got in hot water for including a panda in a list of newsworthy women, but apart from that it was dead as a dodo.

It's always dangerous to draw conclusions from a single game, but these are the times we live in, and «wait and see» is going the same way as the dodo.

She better be careful because a black republican is about as commonplace as a dodo bird.

Chastity, it would seem, is as extinct as the dodo.

But as the dodo's habitat was destroyed, the bird died out.

Not exact matches

As more natural modalities of interaction emerge, that the notion of a «click» - the defacto standard of measurement in the media and marketing worlds - is quickly going the way of the dodo.

If we are fooling ourselves to think they are right and we need to change, we will be dodo, history may describe us as stupid and ignorant people.

As usual, 23,000 new atheists assault this dump at once in a feverish attempt to distract u until dodo can delete the posts that expose her gigantic touche.

if a nazi, god - hating, fascist loud mouth, like sambo anvil face dodo, enters congress to eliminate all christian influence, which she has stated on public forums time and again she plans on doing, a xtard will be prosecuted if he asks god out loud to have mercy on her as she's shooting all the christian children and adults in the place?»

@biggles, biggles I believe in dodo and in pretending to be smart cause as a first grader they put me in a special class for the criminally insane, but told me I was a genius.

midwest idiot, chrome dome, tom moron, blind as a bat, all of»em dodo, said somethin negative about somebody else!

Perhaps the most interesting part of the Derby at the weekend was how Inter set up at the back, with Mancini employing a back four, Juan Jesus played in centre back whilst Dodo was battered as he ran down the left flank.

1) Rami — Centre half Rami played in his unfamiliar position of Rb this game and had to deal with Dodo bombing forward as well as the midfield and attack.

Dodo 6 Started the game well beating Tomovic to put crosses in performance dropped as Inter chased the game subbed.

Trouble is that, even under the three concussion grading systems in most common use in the 1990's and early 2000's (Dr. Bob Cantu's 2001 so - called «evidence - based» guidelines, 1 the 1991 Colorado Medical Society (CMS) guidleines, 2 and the 1997 American Academy of Neurology (AAN) 3 guidelines)- all of which have long since gone the way of the dodo, by the way - and even if Smith's blurred vision had cleared up in less than 15 minutes, which, as it turned out, it didn't, he still would have been considered to have sustained a Grade 1 or mild concussion.

Manesseh Azure Awuni, had considered the gift an inducement as Kanazoe, subsequently won European Union (EU) contract to construct the Dodo Pepeso - Nkwanta road construction project.

Joy News» Manasseh Azure in his latest expose claims President John Mahama (then Vice President) was presented with a new Ford Expedition vehicle as a gift by Burkinabe contractor Djibril Kanazoe, allegedly for helping him to secure contracts for fencing Ghana's embassy in Burkina Faso and also winning the 46.4 km European Union funded Dodo - Pepesu Road Contract.

Rivalling the dinosaurs as a symbol of extinction, the dodo is renowned for being slow, stupid and fat.

Hortense Dodo, a food molecular biologist on the team, says other attempts to solve the problem, such as immune therapy or vaccines, have failed so far (but see ScienceNOW, 10 March).

She is trying to do something similar for the dodo, using the genome of the nicobar pigeon (the closest living species) as a template.

From the famed Dodo, through the lesser known Guam Flycatcher, to the near - extinct Albatross, the exhibition combines beauty with more hard - hitting images that really bring home the devastation wrecked on these fragile creatures, often as a direct result of human behaviour.

As with many animals evolving in isolation from significant predators, the dodo was entirely fearless of people, and this, in combination with its flightlessness, made it easy prey.

Since it died out in the 17th century, the dodo has been depicted as a lumbering, fat bird, ripe for extinction.

This atlas, published as the fifteenth Memoir of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, represents the culmination of nearly five years of work and thousands of man - hours of digital investigation on the only two associated, near - complete skeletons of the dodo in existence.

For eco-artists such as Rupp, there is a haunting beauty in bringing the past back, of recreating the dead and gathering them together — in this picture, a pair of moas, a great auk, and a dodo, birds that never would have met while alive — so that those of us in the world of the living can learn from them.

And so, as Charles Darwin himself had predicted, the Falkland Islands wolf went the way of the dodo.

The number of specimens of great auks, dodos, passenger pigeons and many iconic extinct species in museum collections is vanishingly small compared to the numbers that were cooked, killed for their feathers, shot for sport, or eaten by introduced species, such as cats.

The mission of Revive and Restore: preserve and conserve endemic and endangered species, like the American black footed ferret, but also to try to revive the some extinct breeds such as the passenger pigeon, the woolly mammoth, or even our Dodo using new biotechnologies.

Before joining The Post in 2016, he worked as a freelance science journalist, an associate editor at the Dodo and a medical reporter at the McMahon Group.

However, I have also incorporated many other loves such as Rebecca Taylor, Joie, Ganni, Dodo Bar Or, and loads more that I am currently coveting.

More black and white Dodo Bar Or pieces to love: this is the same print as my skirt in a longer version, this maxi skirt dress, this caftan, this long - sleeved mini dress, this tank, this wrap maxi dress, this skinny strap mini dress, and this lace - up front dress.

The Robert McCrum piece risks sounding a little bit... whiny, and coverage like this makes it sound as if all of us engaged in the book industry are collectively some sad, fat, old dodo stumbling helplessly about on the forest floor waiting for extinction.

As of today, neither ebooks nor traditionally published physical copies appear to be heading the way of the dodo any time soon.

Emily Gray wears Thursday like a second skin, as she does the robots, dodos, and space aliens running around.

Similarly, most publishing experts predict that paper - and - ink books — as well as physical newspapers and magazines — will ultimately go the way of the dodo.